A photoreactive resin composition having high sensitivity and causing less gelation, and methods of manufacturing a circuit board and a ceramic multilayer substrate having a high-resolution wiring pattern and via holes by a photolithography process using the photoreactive resin composition are described. The photoreactive resin composition contains an inorganic powder containing a polyvalent metal powder and/or a polyvalent metal oxide powder, an alkali-soluble first polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, a photoreaction initiator, an organic solvent, and a second polymer having a pyrrolidone ring in a side chain.
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1. A photoreactive resin composition comprising: (a) an inorganic powder comprising a polyvalent metal powder comprising a copper powder coated with a copper oxide; (b) an alkali-soluble polymer containing an ethylenically unsaturated double bond; (c) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; (d) a photoreaction initiator; (e) an organic solvent; and (f) a second polymer having a pyrrolidone ring in a side chain.
2. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 wherein the oxygen content of the copper powder is 0.4% by weight to 1.2% by weight.
3. A photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the second polymer is a copolymer of vinylpyrrolidone and a monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond.
4. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the monomer having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond has no acid functional group.
5. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the second polymer is polyvinylpyrrolidone.
6. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the second polymer has a Fikentscher viscosity characteristic value of 15 to 60.
7. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the content of the second polymer is 0.1 part by weight to 5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvalent metal powder contained in the inorganic powder.
8. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the organic solvent comprises a diol.
9. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 1 , wherein the content of the organic solvent is 10 times by weight to 50 times by weight the weight of the second polymer.
10. A photoreactive resin composition comprising: (a) an inorganic powder comprising at least one of a polyvalent metal powder and a polyvalent metal oxide powder; (b) an alkali-soluble polymer containing an ethylenically unsaturated double bond; (c) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; (d) a photoreaction initiator; (e) an organic solvent; (f) a second polymer having a pyrrolidone ring in a side chain; wherein the content of the second polymer is 0.01 part by weight to 1 part by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvalent metal oxide powder contained in the inorganic powder.
11. A photoreactive resin composition comprising: (a) an inorganic powder comprising at least one of a polyvalent metal powder and a polyvalent metal oxide powder; (b) an alkali-soluble polymer containing an ethylenically unsaturated double bond; (c) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; (d) a photoreaction initiator; (e) an organic solvent; (f) a second polymer having a pyrrolidone ring in a side chain; and (g) a polyhydric alcohol having four or more hydroxyl groups per molecule.
12. A photoreactive resin composition comprising: (a) an inorganic powder comprising at least one of a polyvalent metal powder having an average particle diameter D 50 of 1 m to 5 m and a specific surface area of 0.1 to 2 m 2 /g and a polyvalent metal oxide powder having an average particle diameter D 50 of 1 m to 5 m and a specific surface area of 1 to 10 m 2 /g; (b) a alkali-soluble (meth)acrylic polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or less and an acid value of 50 to 150; (c) a photopolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer; (d) a photoreaction initiator; (e) an organic solvent having a boiling point of 170 to 300 C.; and (f) a second polymer having a pyrrolidone ring in a side chain and having a Fikentscher viscosity characteristic value of 15 to 60; wherein the content of the organic solvent is 10 to 50 times by weight the weight of the second polymer, the content of the second polymer is 0.1 part by weight to 5 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvalent metal powder contained in the inorganic powder, and wherein the polyvalent metal powder comprises a copper powder coated with a copper oxide and having an oxygen content of the copper powder of 0.4% by weight to 1.2% by weight.
13. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 12 , wherein the second polymer is polyvinylpyrrolidone.
14. The photoreactive resin composition according to claim 13 , wherein the organic solvent comprises a diol and the photoreactive resin composition further comprises a polyhydric alcohol having four or more hydroxyl groups per molecule.
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October 11, 2002
September 14, 2004
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